Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

I'm here in this thread not on my behalf but because I know someone who despises rock music (all genres) and always has, and I'm wondering what songs I might offer him to listen to so that he *gets* it: the energy, the intensity, the sexuality, the wild abandon, the rawness of it.

As an outsider looking in, rock music just appears to him like repetitive garbage and unconstrained "animalistic" emotions (which it can be! ). I wish there were songs that could hook him in and get him to appreciate the drive of the drumming and unconstrained "animalistic" emotions as positives rather than negatives.

Suggestions? How does one set the stage for someone to have a change in mindset about rock music? I just feel a little sad thinking that he will go through life without ever resonating with the emotions behind rock music. He doesn't know what he is missing, but *I* do, because rock music is great.

Today at work these two songs I like came on the radio, and I thought I could try them out on him, though I'm pretty sure he'll hate them:

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Billy Idol - "Dancing with Myself"

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The Clash - "Should I Stay or Should I Go"

Is it possible not to dance to these songs when you hear them??

Are there any other songs that you think might loosen a little rock and get it rolling in someone who despises rock music? It's as if he is emotionally deaf to what I hear in rock music, and I don't know how to get through to him.